ABOUT LIFE--YOURS AND MINE--past, present and future.This thread--connected with the "philosophy of religion..." thread--prompts me to ask: What roles were, are and ought to be, played by our favourite philosophies, our beliefs, the sciences and the arts we love? REGARDLESS, IS THERE A PROFOUND UNITY OF LIFE, WHICH LINKS US ALL? Pantheism answers, there is. Check out:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panentheism/DIRECT LINKS TO PANTHEISM--and panentheism
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/pantheism.htm#Links.Pantheism.PantheistPANTHEISM AND ECOLOGY-------------------------------
Generally speaking, more and more of us, young and old--including children, students and workers, social leaders, philosophers, educators, scientists and artists, especially students of ecology--are beginning to agree that, in all things, we human beings are interconnected and interdependent. In life, in death, for better and for worse, as human beings, we are inseparable components of a great unity of life and being.
IN MY OPINIONFailure to acknowledge this unity is the source of much that we find painful in life. It is the cause of so much existential anxiety, so much dystopia.
This lack of unity is what results in our setting of goals that often conflict with one another (think so-called honour killings); this leads to misery instead of action, to the kind of worrying that leads to depression and anxiety--the source of what is commonly called our existential anxiety--the root of much unnecessary physical, mental and spiritual pain and suffering.
THE GOOD NEWSThe good news is: Simply realizing this can be the beginning of our finding the source of joy and simple peace of mind.
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/pantheism.htm#PageThe ancient Hebrews were not the first monotheists, but they are often credited with inventing it. They called the source of this profound unity, ELOHIM (The Power to Do), which our English Bible translates as 'God'.
Interestingly, when Orthodox Jews today write about the god-hypothesis, in English, they write the divine name, G-d. The dash symbolizes the mystery of it all.
SCIENCES. OVER TO YOUThe challenge to those in the sciences is this: Will we be wise and moral enough to use our sciences to help us solve more and more of the mysteries that cause us so much grief? Any examples?
